@fdiv you will love this one. Here is the photo album of my first wild night in Angeles City back in 2006. The album consists of photos and video stills from video that was taken by @Mr S, who showed me around there on my first night there. It was really wild and raunchy and no holds barred. lol. Here's the link.

@publicduende here is an example of a bar girl with a good attitude and is very GFE (girlfriend experience). As you can see from these images, she is cheerful, sweet, good natured, accommodating, has a good vibe, and likes to do everything with me. You can see it in her body language. Girls like this make you feel like a million bucks. It's not easy to find a bar girl like this, so she was a gem in terms of bar girls. I miss her very badly.

Who cares about her teeth. Lol. She was a great kisser. Lol. Of course i keep the photos. The photos are a permanent record that capture moments of bliss and happiness in time. And storage space is cheap now if you buy external hard drives or upload to a cloud server. Also photos serve as proof of HA a lot more than words do.

Usual mixed bag, as one would expect in a girlie bar. I think I have stated here many times: just the thought that all of these girls are prostitutes, or prostitutes for the right price, is a massive turn-off for me.

^^ Totally agree with you, publicduende.

BTW, are you still living somewhere in the Philippines?

Are you originally from the US?

I would still hazard that you're better off in the Philippines. But you have to make a little sacrifice: come over here, perhaps with an excuse ("here for business") for a few weeks, perhaps 2-3 months, start mingling with the right kinds of women in Manila and you'll be absolutely bound to find your quality Filipina.

Too early to give up, mate!

Your attitude now is the polar opposite to a year or so ago Duende. Remember that thread you made "Do I really have to beg a young Filipina" or something. You were poised to throw in the towel and now look.

I think it was me who pointed you in the direction of Manila notably Makati. What else changed? Did you feel more relaxed after the stress of starting up that business in Davao?

Your attitude now is the polar opposite to a year or so ago Duende. Remember that thread you made "Do I really have to beg a young Filipina" or something. You were poised to throw in the towel and now look.

I think it was me who pointed you in the direction of Manila notably Makati. What else changed? Did you feel more relaxed after the stress of starting up that business in Davao?

Precisely, my friend! It was a combination of several factors:

finally putting my business out of its misery and putting an end to an inexhaustible source of stress and lonely late nights;

finally managing to sell my house in the UK, which suddenly plugged my disastrous financial situation (suffice to say, I didn't even have cash to buy my grocery, towards end of September last year);

perhaps most importantly, finally opening my eyes that a the kind of quality girl I was looking for (and complaining about not finding!) had been in love with me for the previous 6 months and was - literally - waiting for me to show up in Makati and say the magic spell words ("mahal din kita");

a much-needed change of scenery: Makati may well be an estate bubble in a perennial state of gridlock, but it's also the place where I was able to forge business relationships of a quality and at a rate that was simply impossible down in Davao;

last but not least, the opportunity to spend far more quality time with my gf, from the wine-sipping, cinema-going nights to the lazy Saturday afternoons spent poolside, to the hot nights...and the inevitable, sporadic arguments.

It's still not easy - I am still working 14 hours a day on 2 projects (one for the UK, one for a large local client) with 2 more in the pipeline and hoping to rebrand my company. At least I see some progress now - the love is pouring, in the money is, too.

For the first time since I chose to land back here, and that was August 2015, I finally feel I am on the right track on both the professional and personal sides. And this, despite the many issues that living in this blessed and cursed country can bring to a foreigner like me.

I don't know if extending this optimism to somebody else, let alone somebody who has only spent a few days here in the Philippines, with a single love interest, is a wise thing to do.

For sure, if a 40-something divorcee with a semi-broken business plan was eventually able to land a young. pretty, smart Ateneo de Manila graduate from an excellent family, then a younger, unmarried Asian-american like Horahngee here should be able to hit not so far away.

As someone said, it's never about how many time we fails, but how many time we try again.

Your attitude now is the polar opposite to a year or so ago Duende. Remember that thread you made "Do I really have to beg a young Filipina" or something. You were poised to throw in the towel and now look.

I think it was me who pointed you in the direction of Manila notably Makati. What else changed? Did you feel more relaxed after the stress of starting up that business in Davao?

Precisely, my friend! It was a combination of several factors:

finally putting my business out of its misery and putting an end to an inexhaustible source of stress and lonely late nights;

finally managing to sell my house in the UK, which suddenly plugged my disastrous financial situation (suffice to say, I didn't even have cash to buy my grocery, towards end of September last year);

perhaps most importantly, finally opening my eyes that a the kind of quality girl I was looking for (and complaining about not finding!) had been in love with me for the previous 6 months and was - literally - waiting for me to show up in Makati and say the magic spell words ("mahal din kita");

a much-needed change of scenery: Makati may well be an estate bubble in a perennial state of gridlock, but it's also the place where I was able to forge business relationships of a quality and at a rate that was simply impossible down in Davao;

last but not least, the opportunity to spend far more quality time with my gf, from the wine-sipping, cinema-going nights to the lazy Saturday afternoons spent poolside, to the hot nights...and the inevitable, sporadic arguments.

It's still not easy - I am still working 14 hours a day on 2 projects (one for the UK, one for a large local client) with 2 more in the pipeline and hoping to rebrand my company. At least I see some progress now - the love is pouring, in the money is, too.

For the first time since I chose to land back here, and that was August 2015, I finally feel I am on the right track on both the professional and personal sides. And this, despite the many issues that living in this blessed and cursed country can bring to a foreigner like me.

I don't know if extending this optimism to somebody else, let alone somebody who has only spent a few days here in the Philippines, with a single love interest, is a wise thing to do.

For sure, if a 40-something divorcee with a semi-broken business plan was eventually able to land a young. pretty, smart Ateneo de Manila graduate from an excellent family, then a younger, unmarried Asian-american like Horahngee here should be able to hit not so far away.

As someone said, it's never about how many time we fails, but how many time we try again.

Ah "Mahal din kita". I haven't heard those words for awhile. Reminds me of my ex and I'm still not sure to this day she actually meant them.

Anyway, good on you for finding your match and best of luck on the business front too.

For sure, if a 40-something divorcee with a semi-broken business plan was eventually able to land a young. pretty, smart Ateneo de Manila graduate from an excellent family, then a younger, unmarried Asian-american like Horahngee here should be able to hit not so far away.

As someone said, it's never about how many time we fails, but how many time we try again.

Ah, hahahahaha!!!

I usually tend to not read other people's posting, but read yours as your advice to me about breaking up with my Filipina GF Grace sounds very similar to what my cranky ass mom told me.

I did not see that you were addressing me in your post.

I disagree with what you're saying about me being able to relocate to the Philippiines. You say that you're a divorced guy from the UK, and had a not-too-difficult time of finding a Filipina GF.

However, the part I differ with you about, is that you work in some kind of business field, and you owned your own businses while you previously lived in the UK.

I unfortunately do not work in the field of business. I got laid off 9 years ago, and have switched to a totally different career.

That career, unfortunately, pays LESS if I were to work in the Philippines, or heck, anywhere else outside of the US (or even Canada).

Therefore, I have no desire to move/relocate to the Philippines to find a GF, and eventually marry her. I just want to hook up with someone and get to know her, and then, get married to her.

I still want to be with Grace. However, with her older sister who argued with me, I do not feel like going back to the Philippines to visit her. It will also seem awkward to marry her, after all of these troubles that we have been through. I do not even know if Grace's older sister talked stink/gossiped about me to her neighbors. hence, I will eventually be just friends with her, but no marriage will take place with her.